Now if you are a citizen of A who moved to B and kept his citizenship, then all your new neighbours will call you an "immigrant", while all your old neighbours call you an "emigrant". …

I'm reading an English text about politics, and in one paragraph I found "voters," "electorates" and "constituents." Now I would like to know if they are absolutely the same, or if they have slightly

In [i] we could have as if he had been a Commonwealth citizen, with the perfect marking backshift (or past time) and the preterite marking modal remoteness; it is, however, much more usual in …

From Chambers Dictionary: “-ite” is a suffix used to “form names of people, indicating their origin, place of origin, affiliations, loyalties” (e.g. Jacobite). Whereas suffixes “-an” or “–ian” denotes …

12 I have trouble understanding why some words change "s"-es to "z"-s from BE to AE and some not. For example: analyse -> analyze characterise -> characterize hypnotise -> hypnotize But: …

Are these two words interchangeable? According to the Oxford dictionary, experienced means having knowledge or skill in a particular job or activity, while seasoned having a lot of …

12 I can't use the phrase "second-class citizen" either. This is for a professional blog post, so I'd rather stay away from "red-headed step-child". I can't use "second-class citizen" because I'm …

@citizen: I don't think it's really a matter of avoiding though as such. The thing is you're using it to ask a chatty/informal rhetorical question - which is all very well if you're a lecturer trying to …

Dec 17, 2011 · The country of which I am a citizen is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Great Britain is the largest of the British Isles and is home to England, …

The two nouns (or pronouns) must be present, one denoting the person or thing in all aspects (he), and the other singling out one of his or its aspects (lover, or citizen)." This was the only …